Аннотация:In his Cambridge inaugural lecture in November 1989, Professor Patrick Collinson attempted to re-establish the common ground linking two increasingly separated areas of historical debate when he used his platform to call for 'a new political history' of early modern England, 'an account of political processes which is also social'.1 In reflecting on what I will call 'the politics of the parish', this chapter also seeks to explore the opportunities for a 'social history with the politics put back in'; but in a rather different sense.
